Report: CIA 'officials' behind Benghazi talking points

11:37 PM,
Dec. 4, 2012

s Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah has been criticial of the Obama administration's handing of the Benghazi affair.

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Oren Dorrell
Gannett

A Republican lawmaker says a new report that details how references to al-Qaeda were removed from White House talking points on the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi is further evidence the Obama administration tried to mislead the public about what happened.

"There appears to be a concerted effort to mislead the American people," says Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah. "At this point the Obama administration has been elusive at best and misleading at worse."

Chaffetz was responding to a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal that CIA "officials" wanted the terrorist origins of the attack kept ...